Coyote strike

Need to open up hunting at O'Hare... I'll take one for the team and volunteer.
 
They must be making an organized attack. I had to abort takeoff yesterday due to a couple of them on the runway at CRP.
 
I heard a story just after arriving at a remote test site. I have no idea if it's true or not but it started with TINS so take it for what it's worth: Large airplane returns from a test flight. On postflight inspection what looks like coyote remains are found on the nose gear, but there's not much left. No significant damage to the airplane, cleaned up, flying again. Not long after, rumors of animal mutilations in the area are heard based on someone finding a mangled coyote carcass on their well-secured property.

Nauga,
who knows it's aliens
 
Ironically there was another incident Monday morning in a Chicago Aldi's store involving a coyote. I know Chicago has a lot of problems, but didn't realize coyotes were one of them.
 
nauga said:
I heard a story just after arriving at a remote test site. I have no idea if it's true or not but it started with TINS so take it for what it's worth: Large airplane returns from a test flight. On postflight inspection what looks like coyote remains are found on the nose gear, but there's not much left. No significant damage to the airplane, cleaned up, flying again. Not long after, rumors of animal mutilations in the area are heard based on someone finding a mangled coyote carcass on their well-secured property.

Nauga,
who knows it's aliens
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Mutilated animals falling from the sky...

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My pal hit a coyote taking off from El Paso at night in a 210. Insurance totaled the airplane but I think it flew again.
They can cause some damage.
 
midwestpa24 said:
I know Chicago has a lot of problems, but didn't realize coyotes were one of them.
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Chicago sure has problems, but coyotes are everywhere now, even Central Park in NYC. When I was flying powered paragliders at the old Griswold Airport in CT, it was quite the sport to fly around and chase coyotes off the airport in the evening.
 
I saw a coyote inside the fence at ORD, decades ago. It was on that grassy knoll, just looking around. I’ve seen them a number of times near the forest preserve areas. It wouldn’t take much to sneak inside.

At Oshkosh they often have pictures of critters removed from the ORD airport area, deer & coyotes mostly.
 
You might enjoy this thread:
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Thread 'Dan Gryder banned from Airventure'

One night we were waiting for our Uber by one of the gates, we made friends with the kids working security

One thing led to another and their instruction book got handed to me to look at something. And I turned the page, there Dan was

Banned for life from the grounds. Totally forgot about it until I saw him posting trash on Different OSH groups on Facebook. I did happen to take a picture


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Let'sgoflying! said:
My pal hit a coyote taking off from El Paso at night in a 210. Insurance totaled the airplane but I think it flew again.
They can cause some damage.
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We get a lot of them here ... if they repave a runway, be very careful. Had one at Silver City Whiskey Creek after they repaved (winter) that would just look and laugh after several low approaches as they sunned themselves ...
 
Had a coyote caught on the motion cameras outside my house just a week ago.

They're occasionally at the airport, but a bigger problem is birds. Airport staff have a full-size coyote statue ("Wiley") that they set out to try to scare the birds away. Then on CTAF, we get a lot of radio calls about "Coyote on the edge of the runway."

Ron Wanttaja
 
danhagan said:
We get a lot of them here ... if they repave a runway, be very careful. Had one at Silver City Whiskey Creek after they repaved (winter) that would just look and laugh after several low approaches as they sunned themselves ...
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A long time ago my friend, manning mobile, accused me of raising the gear on my T-38 to descend and scare off a stray dog. He did scamper.
 
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